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Dear Apple fans, a plea for less HN submissions, jokes and metaphors.

Completely automated updates for Firefox might be better for security but they will hurt end-user experience, mostly by breaking add-on functionality.

http://internetmindmap.com/datasets (related links I've collected) http://delicious.com/pskomoroch/redistributable+dataset (some good bookmarks)

If I want to download a single file, I just use wget and paste the URL in my Putty window. If you want something better than curl and wget, try Mulk. It's based on libcurl, does pa…

Is it compete.com, consumerinput.com or both that you are querying each page view? AFAIK, you can just query the Compete API ( http://developer.compete.com/ ). I haven't seen anyth…

I'm one of those people. My desktop is actually less powerful than my laptop (excluding the graphics card). I can do everything the desktop does with it, plus I can carry it with m…

You can use miracle fruit (or miracle berry) to make sour/bitter things taste sweet. It binds to your tastebuds for about half an hour, during which sour things will taste quite sw…

You could say our current situation is a bit like a game. We have silly achievements: world/country/whatever records (think Guinness World Records). You could say money is "points"…

And it's good to be able to inspire other people.

Nice, some new ones to add to my list: http://internetmindmap.com/available_domains

Wikidpad http://trac.wikidpad2.webfactional.com/wiki I don't want to use a separate app for to-do lists, so I either use whatever text editor is at hand or Wikidpad. It's also a gr…

How to do away with the hedonic treadmill: The Hedonistic Imperative http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedonist.htm

It would be great if you added an option to strip EXIF data from JPEGs. Or does it do that already?

http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ Since the CustomizeGoogle extension is no longer updated, I suggest trying the new OptimizeGoogle extension that has taken over the former's responsi…

I find it very disturbing that you find photos of a blog's author very disturbing. If you have nothing meaningful to say , don't say anything.

Descriptive relativism is merely the positive or descriptive position that there exist, in fact, fundamental disagreements about the right course of action even when the same facts…

Here is a site with cost-of-living figures for a lot of places. You can also help by adding data for your current location. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

>Porn users become addicted and can't stop using it. They go back for more and more. They desire harder and harder material. They seek to mimic what they see in their preferred por…

'Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb' is one of my favourites. I also enjoyed A Scanner Darkly and I think I might have missed the joke. Would you mind sharing it? I…

They've been sold out since the first time I saw it. I'm a big fan of re-using and repairing stuff, can't wait to buy it really.

Cryptome has published a variety of such documents. Facebook, Paypal, Microsoft, Myspace, Skype, Comcast, AOL, Cox, Cisco, Yahoo, Google and more http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net…

I enjoyed this article. The part about helping other people reminded me of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture and what he said about enabling the dreams of others: http://www.youtube.com/…